Arkham Asylum collection faucets Antonio Campos as third showrunner

Selection has reported that HBO Max have tapped Antonio Campos (The Staircase) to function the showrunner on the Arkham Asylum collection. This marks the third showrunner the collection has had because it was initially introduced greater than two years in the past.

The Arkham Asylum collection started life as a present set within the Gotham Metropolis Police Division. Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) was set to write down and government produce the spin-off of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, however Winter left the collection resulting from inventive variations. Joe Barton (The Lazarus Venture) then boarded the collection, solely to depart as nicely when the main target shifted to Arkham Asylum. Ought to Antonio Campos stick round lengthy sufficient, he may even direct and government produce the Arkham Asylum collection.

Matt Reeves confirmed earlier this 12 months that the GCPD collection had certainly advanced. “The GCPD factor, that story has sort of advanced,” Reeves mentioned. “We’re truly now transferring extra into the realm of precisely what would occur on the planet of Arkham coming off our film and among the (villain) characters, once more of their origins. Nearly leaning into the thought of, it’s like a horror film or like a haunted home that’s Arkham. The thought of, the best way that Gotham is a personality within the film, I really need Arkham to exist as a personality so that you’d go into this atmosphere and encounter these characters in a means that feels actually recent. So in our work on Gotham, that story began to evolve and it began feeling like, ‘Wait, we should always actually lean into this.’ And that’s sort of the place that’s gone.” This isn’t the one Batman spinoff collection within the works as Colin Farrell can be set to reprise his function of Penguin in a collection revolving across the villain’s rise to glory.

Antonio Campos most just lately served as the author, director, government producer, and showrunner on The Staircase, a true-crime restricted collection which starred Colin Firth as Michael Peterson, a author convicted of murdering his spouse Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette), who was discovered useless on the backside of the staircase of their residence. The collection debuted on HBO Max in Might 2022.